Our own instant millionaire

A DEVONPORT man will enter 2013 as a millionaire after winning $1.4 million in TattsLotto's $30 million Megadraw at the weekend. The man was one of two Tasmanians to collect winnings in the Megadraw. The other lucky man was from the Launceston suburb...

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One dead in Bay of Fires crash

ONE person is dead and two are trapped after a head-on collision at a popular holiday spot in Tasmania's north-east. Police said the crash happened this afternoon on Gardens Rd, The Gardens, near Swimcart Beach. The area, near St Helens, is a popular...

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Burma crash duo vow to return

THEY escaped the burning wreckage of a plane crash in Burma, but Tasmanian Stuart Benson and South Australian girlfriend Anna Bartsch plan to return to the country to complete their unfinished holiday. The couple arrived in Australia yesterday morning,...

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City gets Taste of traffic jam

TOP TASTES: Joe Bennett of Get Shucked Oyster Farm and Will Bignell of Tasmanian Highland Cheeses enjoy their fare. Their combined stall, which also included Craigow Wines/Tap Barley Beer/Belgrove Estate Highland Whisky was named best stall for 2012....

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Energy honeymoon over

THE honeymoon period for Aurora customers is to come to an end, with electricity disconnections set to more than double in Tasmania in the next 12 months. Aurora had given Tasmanian customers a four-month amnesty on disconnections as they rolled out...

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Bikie boss in Tassie buy up

THE boss of one of Australia's most notorious bikie gangs has been buying up property across Tasmania. The Mercury can reveal Sydney-based Rebels Motorcycle Club national president Alessio Emmanuel "Alex" Vella has bought several properties in the state...

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Arrest over road rage attack

A 63-YEAR-OLD man is in police custody and a 37-year-old man is in hospital with stab wounds after a road rage incident at Glenorchy this morning. Police say an altercation between the two men unfolded after both drivers pulled up side by side at the...

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Hungry hordes storm Hobart

The crowd at day one of this year's Taste, which will be open until 11 tonight. Pictures: SAM ROSEWARNE THOUSANDS of Tasmanians, tourists and wave-weary yachties have surged into the Taste Festival, which opened at 11am today on Hobart's waterfront....

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Oats could smash race record

Wild Oats is potentially still on target for a new Sydney to Hobart race record as she enters Bass Strait this morning. Picture: BRETT COSTELLO WILD Oats XI is steaming towards Hobart ahead of record pace in the 68th Rolex Sydney-Hobart. The Sydney...

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Woman, 70, missing again

DELORAINE police are searching for a 70-year-old Westbury woman who has been missing since Christmas Eve. Police said Patricia Marion Manners was last seen at Dunorlan, a tiny township near Deloraine. She is described as about 158cm tall, with grey...

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Bird strikes early on debut

JACKSON Bird has made an instant impression in his Australia Test debut at the MCG, grabbing two impressive top-order scalps against Sri Lanka. The 26-year-old struck in the fourth over of the Boxing Day Test when Dimuth Karunaratne lunged forward and...

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Blaze threatens Dolphin Sands

A SCRUB is burning out of control at Dolphin Sands, north of Swansea, on Tasmania's East Coast. Residents of Dolphin Sands Rd have been urged to activate their bushfire plans, with the Tasmania Fire Service sending 10 units to tackle the blaze. The...

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Bruny delays likely

Long queues for the Bruny Island ferry at Easter. COMMUTERS bound for Bruny Island are advised to expect delays during the busy festive period. Shane Gregory, from the Department of Infrastructure, said motorists traditionally had a longer wait...

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Santa visits tree sitter

Santa helps environmental activist Miranda Gibson celebrate her second Christmas in a tree in southern Tasmania. WHILE most Tasmanians will gather around a Christmas tree today, conservationist Miranda Gibson will still be up one – a 400-year-old...

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Tragic start to holiday period

The vehicle at the crash scene in East Bagdad Rd yesterday. Picture: MATT THOMPSON A MAN in his 70s is dead, after his ute hit an embankment and turned onto its side at Bagdad yesterday. The victim, the sole occupant of the grey Ford utility, is...

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Drive to survive this Christmas

Tasmania Police officers have detected 11 drink drivers after conducting almost 2000 random breath tests. MORE than 60 motorists have been caught speeding and 11 have been picked up for drink-driving offences in the Tasmania Police Christmas blitz....

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Action plea on light rail

SUPPORTERS of Hobart's proposed light-rail system have renewed calls for action following the release of the business case review yesterday. Aecom's review of ACIL Tasman's 2011 business case found it was an essentially fair and sound appraisal of the...

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Festive real estate boom

WITH fewer open homes and active agents, Christmas and New Year can be a tricky time to buy or sell a home. But with a slight market improvement across the state over the past three months, Real Estate Institute of Tasmania president Adrian Kelly says...

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Flowing with festive cheer

Revellers packed Salamanca Place last night. THOUSANDS of Hobart revellers started putting the "merry" into this year's Christmas holiday period last night. There was a bumper and boisterous crowd at Salamanca for the traditional Christmas break-up...

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Snapshot shows healthy state

THE latest snapshot of Tasmania is in, and the news is mostly good. We are richer and smarter than two years ago. We call ourselves optimists, but we can be a little tight with the purse strings. We don't trust governments, but we reckon we lead full...

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Abuser's jail term increased

A MAN involved in one of the most horrific cases of sexual abuse to come before the Tasmanian courts has had his sentence increased on appeal. The Court of Appeal today added another three years to his jail term, describing the initial sentence as inadequate....

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Help at hand for injured boys

A BROAD cross-section of the Tasmanian community has banded together to set up a trust to help two little boys who were severely burnt in a car explosion in Burnie earlier this month. Family friends, groups of mothers, service clubs and churches have...

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Man charged over murders

A MAN has appeared in a Hobart court charged with two counts of murder over the deaths of a couple at Mountain River, south of Hobart. Nicolau Francisco Soares, 27, of no fixed address, appeared before Magistrate Michael Daly shortly before 4pm today....

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Two dead on rural property

Dr Del Weston was found dead. Inset: Officers at the scene of the alleged double murder in Bennetts Rd, Mountain River, this morning. THE nation's leading health economist and his academic partner are dead after being murdered at their idyllic Mountain...

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Accessory's sentence stands

A MAN who helped a killer hide the body of a murder victim has lost an appeal against the severity of his jail term. Sean Timothy Hudson, 37, of Ravenswood, was convicted in May of assault and being an accessory after the fact in the murder of 43-year-old...

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Trial over teen's road death

A NEW Norfolk man will face trial next year over the road death of a schoolgirl in the Derwent Valley last February. Bradley John Chaplin, 27, has pleaded not guilty to negligent driving, driving without due care and attention, speeding, and driving...

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Students receive finals marks

MORE than 3000 students have achieved their Tasmanian Certificate of Education this year. Among them are about 100 students whose mark of 98.45 or more put them in the top 1.5 per cent of their age group in Australia. They were among 12,605 students...

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Worker hurt in Bicheno blast

A MAN in his 60s has been badly injured in an industrial accident near Bicheno, Tasmania Police say. Officers were sent to the scene on the state's East Coast this afternoon after reports of an explosion. The incident occurred about 2pm in a quarry...

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Police suspect parental dispute

Police officers are continuing to search a home at Hamilton after a double murder yesterday. Picture: KIM EISZELE POLICE believe a 59-year-old man suspected of a double murder at Hamilton was motivated by a dispute over his one-year-old child. ...

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Body found in Howrah dunes

SES volunteers comb the Howrah site where the body of a man was found by a member of the public earlier today. Picture: LUKE BOWDEN THE body of a man believed to be in his 60s has been found in sand dunes at Howrah, on Hobart's Eastern Shore. Police...

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Morning of the king tide

LAPPING: The water was high at the boat sheds at Cornelian Bay yesterday. Picture: KIM EISZELE YESTERDAY'S high tide might have been a king tide but it wasn't a monster one. The combined gravitational pull of the moon and the sun guaranteed a higher...

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Clean, green the way to Asia

PRIME Minister Julia Gillard has urged Tasmania to use its clean, green image to take advantage of the Asian century. Talking to the Mercury for the last time before the Prime Minister takes a break for Christmas, Ms Gillard urged Tasmania to play to...

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My year in a tree

TREE-MENDOUS EFFORT: Miranda's mum, Glenys Gibson, visits her daughter, who has spent a year in the tree protesting about logging in the state's high conservation value forests. Picture: Alan Lesheim WHEN Miranda Gibson started her tree-top protest...

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No regrets

WITH the Australian Test team training in the background, Ricky Ponting is a familiar figure at Bellerive. But instead of being dressed in Test attire, Ponting is in the purple and black of the Hobart Hurricanes as international cricket moves on without...

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Deal hits road block

STANDSTILL: The forest industry is waiting on the outcome of peace talks. TASMANIA'S powerful Upper House is deadlocked on whether to support the state's historic $378 million forestry peace deal. After a marathon 13 1/2-hour debate yesterday,...

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Three generations of abuse

AN AGED pensioner has been jailed for abusing three generations of young girls from his own family over a 45-year period. The 79-year-old southern Tasmanian man, who cannot be identified for legal reasons, appeared in the Supreme Court in Hobart today....

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Last-ditch $102m for forest deal

TASMANIA'S historic forest peace deal has been thrown an extra $102 million in a last-ditch effort to get the legislation underpinning the deal through the Upper House. The State Government will go further into deficit by contributing $39.5 million...

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Peace deal debate begins

TASMANIA'S Upper House has started debating the legislation underpinning Tasmania's historic forest peace deal. Western Tiers MLC Greg Hall started debate by referring to the legislation as a "crock". Mr Hall described additional money offered for...

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Cash for jobs -- at a cost

THE State Government will slide further into debt in a bid to create hundreds of jobs and leverage much needed new investment. Premier Lara Giddings yesterday announced the Tasmanian Jobs Package she hopes will deliver 3300 jobs and create about $375...

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Hampered by high demand

TASMANIAN welfare agencies are having to turn people away as the demand for emergency assistance far outstrips supply. The Salvation Army yesterday said it feared it would run out of food to distribute to those in need this festive season. The Salvos...

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Wait to question Burnie dad

A fire engine and a police car at the scene of a tragic car fire at Shorewell Park last week. IT may be weeks before a Burnie man accused of attempting to murder his two young sons can be questioned by police. The 49-year-old man from Shorewell...

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Grunwaldt search resumes

The Bicheno Waste Management Centre where police are searching for a bicycle used by Nancy Grunwaldt. POLICE have returned to a tip site in Bicheno as the investigation into one of Tasmania's most infamous missing persons cases continues. Launceston...

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Seeking warmer waters

TROPICAL fish are venturing as far south as Tasmania in response to ocean warming. Recent tropical sightings include turtles, a yellow-bellied sea snake, a green moray eel, tiger shark and a mahi-mahi dolphinfish. The unusual sightings have been documented...

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Ideas plan to lift Tassie

WHISKY and food trails, attracting more international students and bringing old industrial sites back to life are some of the ideas contained in three regional economic plans for Tasmania. The regional plans were released last month, following 38 community...

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Great balls of fire

HOT ACT: Self-declared Australia's "King of Circus" Roy Maloy smashes the world fire-breathing record yesterday. Picture: LEIGH WINBURN MORE than 500 fireballs were hurled into the air by Australian circus king Roy Maloy as he attempted his fifth...

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